Collaborative Scene Shop partners with Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”

Local build company to send rose wall on national tour

ROTTERDAM— The Collaborative Scene Shop has been working with its biggest client to date: Disney. The shop was tasked to build the magnificent rose wall that fans of the show can take pictures with before or after they experience the iconic musical, “Beauty and the Beast.”

Shop Director Obadiah Savage said, “We are definitely very excited, thankful, and ambitious. It’s great that we have more access to more audiences seeing our work.”

The 25^th anniversary national tour of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” spent the month of June teching (preparing the show to go on the road) at Proctors in Schenectady. The show will start their national tour June 25 on the MainStage, and there for the first time you’ll be able to interact with the ‘Rose Wall’ and take photos to share! The Scene Shop’s hard work will follow the tour across the country.

The designer of the project, Casey Wilczak said, “To have this opportunity through the scene shop, we have to nail it out of the park. It’s got to be perfect, especially because we’re so close to people interacting and touching it.”

“I thought about the magic that Disney brings and that overwhelming sense of joy. We’re going to be adding some neon strip lights and some fiber optics to add some twinkle throughout the roses to make everything feel much more enchanted and lusher through the experience,” he added.

The Scene Shop works with many local theatres, including Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, and helps produce sets for local high school theatre programs. They recently created a prop for “Buena Vista Social Club,” currently showing on Broadway. But according to Savage, Disney is the biggest client they’ve had.

See Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and the Scene Shop’s shop talented work at Proctors Wednesday, June 25 to Thursday, July 3. Tickets are still available, visit atproctors.org for more information.

“This is a moment that people will take a picture to prove they were there. And I think that’s really great, and I hope that they see the show with someone they love. I hope it affects them in a good positive way,” Savage added.

Wilczak wants, “Fans to light up and fall into the magic. I want people to experience it like it’s their favorite thing in the world.”